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People, community and memory
  • Bottesford Celebrates VE & VJ Day
    Bottesford Celebrates VE & VJ Day
    The Grantham Journal (Saturday, 11th May 1945) The church bells rang in Bottesford on Surrender Day (VE Day), immediately after Winston Churchill’s proclamation. Bottesford bell ringers rang an opening peal of 360 changes of Grandsire Double and further ringing included “firing a victory salute”. Every seat was occupied in church for a thanksgiving service on the Tuesday evening ...
  • Village Voice digital archive
    Village Voice digital archive
    Copies of all the past issues of the newsletter are held here, for you to read.
  • Not Forgetting - Aspects of Village Life in Bottesford, Easthorpe, Muston and Normanton
    Not Forgetting - Aspects of Village Life in Bottesford, Easthorpe, Muston and Normanton
    This book is now available online via this web-page
  • Bottesford Local History Society
    Bottesford Local History Society
    We look forward to seeing you at our meetings, monthly, every second Thursday, Sept to May, 7.30, Fuller Room, Old School, Grantham Road, Bottesford  NG13 0DF £2.50 on the night, annual subscription £10.00
  • Muston School in 1940
    Muston School in 1940
    Remembered by Gerald Coy
  • Our WW1 servicemen
    Our WW1 servicemen
    A Roll of Honour of the men from Bottesford and Muston who served with the armed forces during the First World War, those who died doing their duty and those who survived the fighting.
  • Explore our Online Archive
    Explore our Online Archive
    road men at their ease outside the Red Lion, Grantham Road
  • Angels and Dragons: faces at St Mary the Virgin, Bottesford
    Angels and Dragons: faces at St Mary the Virgin, Bottesford
    Learn about the history of this beautiful Grade-1 Listed church: Buy the Book!

This website is a living history of the parish of Bottesford and Muston in Leicestershire. The editors are all members of the Bottesford History Group.

Through the site, people share their memories, photos, maps and information about Bottesford, past and present. Find out how you can contribute your own words and pictures.

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  • Phillip Brewster

    Phillip Brewster

    AB A/SG DEMS Gunner P/JX335909, Royal Navy - SS Oporto
  • Harry Harby - War service timeline

    Harry Harby - War service timeline

  • Childhood Memories of Wartime Bottesford

    Childhood Memories of Wartime Bottesford

  • The Paupers and the 'Pocky Doctor'

    The Paupers and the 'Pocky Doctor'

  • There's Nothing New About Removals

    There's Nothing New About Removals

    'Apples when she was sick' -Support and Removal in C18th Muston
  • Social Care and Benefits in Eighteenth Century Bottesford

    Social Care and Benefits in Eighteenth Century Bottesford

    The Overseers of the Poor Books 1783 -1785
  • Boiled Sheep's Head and Rook Pie

    Boiled Sheep's Head and Rook Pie

    Hester Harrington Tuxford, Best-Selling Cookery Writer
  • The Bottesford Amateur Operatic Society

    The Bottesford Amateur Operatic Society

    A brief history
  • Silver Jubilee Belvoir Road Street Party 1977

    Silver Jubilee Belvoir Road Street Party 1977

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  • Boiled Sheep's Head and Rook Pie

    Boiled Sheep's Head and Rook Pie

    Hester Harrington Tuxford, Best-Selling Cookery Writer
  • The Poet, The Parson and a Pailful of Ale

    The Poet, The Parson and a Pailful of Ale

    When Ben Jonson Came to Bottesford
  • A Bad Man from Bottesford

    A Bad Man from Bottesford

    The Criminal Career of Henry Rouse
  • Jean and Peggy, Gladys and Edna

    Jean and Peggy, Gladys and Edna

    Women's Land Army Workers in Bottesford WW2
  • Lest We Forget: Bottesford & Muston in the Great War

    Lest We Forget: Bottesford & Muston in the Great War

    Now available
  • Harry Harby - War service timeline

    Harry Harby - War service timeline

  • Childhood Memories of Wartime Bottesford

    Childhood Memories of Wartime Bottesford

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  • David Middleton on Walter MillerLink now working to Walter Miller's war diary. Thank you to John Miller for the new link.

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